“In the really hard cases you're choosing between the disastrous and the catastrophic, and it's hard to tell someone which one is which.”

Quoted by Graham Allison , in A Conversation with Henry Kissinger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPqxISYxjcI

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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

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